"There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song."

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Source : "Phil Ochs in Concert". Live album by Phil Ochs (introduction to the song "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo"), March 1966.

Phil Ochs

#Song Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Musical Quotes

“I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.”
“When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.”

Source : Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.
“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”
“You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm not sure that the songs help me figure anything out so much as they're a distillation of the original question.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences”
“Where the eye divides, the ear connects.”

Source : John Luther Adams (2004). “Winter Music: Composing the North”, p.164, Wesleyan University Press
“In Jesus Christ on the Cross, there is refuge; there is safety; there is shelter; and all the power of sin upon our track cannot reach us when we have taken shelter under the Cross that atones for our sins.”

Source : a.c.dixon (1962). “the glories of the cross”
“Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.”

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